Gounley, a 2008 graduate of Peninsula Catholic and current senior at the University of New Hampshire, ran the Marathon in 3 hours, 52 minutes and 33 seconds. That was the 6,315th-fastest time, which puts him in the upper 30 percent of the 22,426 runners who started the race.

Gounley's time was almost an hour slower than what he ran last year, but there was a big difference this year: He was juggling three bean bags the whole time. Gounley ran as a "joggler," a sport that combines jogging and juggling.

Only two others had entered the Marathon as jogglers before. In 2006, Zach Warren finished at 2:58.23 and Michal Kapral came in at 3:06.43.

Gounley, whose main goal is to break the world's record for joggling in a 50-mile ultra-marathon on May 12, was hoping to finish Monday's race between 3 1/2 and 4 hours. That was before he realized how hot it would be.

Gounley started at 10:33 a.m. and ran his first mile in 7:44. At the halfway point, his time was 1:45.08, which put him on pace to finish at 3:30.15. But he ran the final 10K at a pace near 10 minutes per mile.

"It was wicked hot," Gounley said, adding some Boston dialect. "The first half went pretty well, and my pace was pretty good. The second half, I realized by the 14-mile mark I was entering survival mode."

The temperature broke 80 degrees by 1 p.m., about 48 minutes before Gounley finished. The Boston Globe reported that five runners had been taken to the hospital for heat-related problems. Approximately 4,000 of the 26,716 runners deferred their entries to next year.

Unlike the other runners who could simply grab a bottle of water and continue on, Gounley had to stop -- since even he hasn't figured out a way to joggle while drinking water. Under normal circumstances, Gounley would stop every few miles. But because of the rising temperatures, he stopped every mile at a station for water or Gatorade."

Gounley started at the back of the first wave of 9,000 runners, which gave him more space for the juggling. He didn't have his first drop until mile 14 -- he said he had never before gone eight miles without a drop. In the final 13 miles, he said he dropped six or eight times, which he attributed to fatigue.

He said the other runners were supportive.

"Some of the runners when they got in front of me whipped out a camera and shot video," he said. "I had people at the aid stations taking pictures with their camera phones. For 26.2 miles and four hours I heard people saying 'Go joggler!' or 'Go Meathouse,' because that's what I had (temporarily tattooed) on my chest. I got special treatment.

Let's see, how to describe Thomas Gounley? Who, as a kid, taught himself to ride a unicycle for no apparent reason. Who, on a whim, decided to bike 1,350 miles from St. Louis to Yorktown. And who, in his latest bit of inspired madness, will run the Boston Marathon while juggling.

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